I thought by the time I was ready to have children they’d have beaten this thing and we’d be brave new worlding babies in a lab. But now I’m 30.

I don’t know latin so I’m just going to assume that chest tattoo translates into “No Ragrets.”

I’m so glad for Sarah that not all of her family are shitlords. My heart breaks for the kids at the facility that aren’t that lucky. All of these military-style/hard labor camps for “troubled” teens should be illegal, they're abuse straight up.

Normal expected everyday behavior would be not raping/being raped.

They are absolutely heros but how sad is it that we live in a world where two men who stop another man from raping an unconscious woman is considered heroic, rather than just normal, expected every day behaviour?

“and that he will “never be his happy go lucky self [sic]” again.”

I hate to break it to you, but this mess is really all your daddy’s fault.

Are Stormtrooper uniforms “causal”? I’m asking for a friend.

The thing is, they didn’t even HAVE to listen to women. There were two men that saved her, chased him off, and acted as eyewitnesses to his crime, but his welfare is still prioritized before hers. And arguably, before the welfare of his next potential victim.

You can police every aspect of your speech, you can wear the right things, you can get all the degrees and expertise, you can write the most fucking eloquent and heartbreaking courtroom statement and still there are men who will not hear you because they just don’t listen to women.

No no no, silly woman. Don’t get hysterical. This is all just about mental illness. Not everything is misogyny. These men, while rapists and murderers, certainly weren’t misogynistic. No, to admit they were is a bridge too far and unfairly besmirches them. They never admitted they killed women because of sexism. And…

Shit, this breaks my heart.

He hunted this woman down. She tried to get away but he kept coming after her. All of this happened because he couldn't accept she didn't want to be with him anymore.

Right? This is the thing: I just don’t need to see it any more. It’s become a sort of bullshit shorthand for “serious” treatment of female characters. You want to show me what a great auteur you are? Show me the relationships between your (named female) characters. Show me a sisterhood, or a mother-daughter…

I spoke about this to my friends last year. There are way too many of us out here who have been sexually assaulted. We don’t need to constantly see it in movies and shows. We get it. We fucking get it.

He said “we paid for you” and also didn’t respond to her “stop” and “no.” Maybe it sounds very radical fem but camera lens can be male gazey and with the non consent here this feels kind of rapey (no, that doesn’t undermine actual rape...this is a different degree but in my understanding there is a spectrum of…

There needs to be more education on it period. A lot of people still victim blame and that “Why didn’t she just leave?” is still tossed around.

I hope they get the prayers they need for comfort, but also I hope the government invests more money in domestic violence intervention. There’s almost always an escalation in threats and violence so there may be warning signs, but the authorities often can’t act on them until it’s too late. Domestic abuse is a unique…

YESYESYESYES.

So glad we keep finding ways to be an openly bigoted country. Was worried that after nationally recognized same-sex marriage we were going soft there for a second